Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

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JACQUELINE LOSS is an Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her publications include Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place (2005, Palgrave) and the co-edited collection, New Short Fiction from Cuba (2007, Northwestern University Press). Her book Dreaming in Russian that treats Cubans' memory of the Soviets in the arts is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.
JOSÉ MANUEL PRIETO was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including the internationally acclaimed Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia (Encyclopedia of a life in Russia), Livadia (published in English as Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire), Rex, and El Tartamudo y la rusa (short stories). His Voz humana (Human Voice) is forthcoming. He has been a fellow at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. José Manuel Prieto taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City, Cornell University as a Visiting Professor, and at Princeton University as a Distinguished Lecturer. He currently teaches at Seton Hall University.

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PART I: OSTALGIE: CUBAN STYLE The Muñequitos Rusos GenerationAurora Jácome, Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen NostalgiaReina María Rodríguez, Translated by Kristin Dykstra Roxy the RedPedro González Reinoso, Translated by Dick Cluster PART II: COMMUNICATING VESSELS The Rebellious Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of Cuban Sots Art Juan Carlos Betancourt, Translated by Antonio Garza Toward a Cuban OctoberErnesto Menéndez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward SatelliteJorge Ferrer, Translated by Anna Kushner The Mammoth That Wouldn't DieCarlos Espinosa Domínguez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)José Manuel Prieto, Translated by Jorge Castillo PART III: RECALCITRANT AJIACO So, Borscht and the Ajiaco Don't Mix?: An Essay of Self-ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in CubaDmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Martínez Shvietsova, Translated by Kristina Cordero Dispatches from the War ZoneTonel Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black 'Mona'Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva, Translated by Jacqueline Loss Persistent MatriushkasJacqueline Loss PART IV: THE IMAGINARY TRACTOR The Inventor, the Machine, and the New ManAriana Hernández-Reguant What the Russians Left BehindYoss, Translated by Daniel W. Koon PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC COQUETTERIE Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in CubaYuri Pavlov Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet WorldMervyn J. Bain